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ELON COLLEGE. N
FRIDAY
MARCH
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SpeechOn Campus
TAR HEEL GOVERNOR READS DIPLOMA AFTER RECEIVING DOCTORATE
Governor Robert W. Scott, who delivered the featured address at the Elon Founders Day convocation
in Alumni Memorial Gymnasium on Wednesday of last week, is pictured center above as he reads the
diploma for the honorary Doctor of Laws degree that Elon College conferred upon him during the cere
monies. With him as he reads the doctoral diploma is Dr. J. E. Danieley, Elon’s president at the left,
and Secretary of State Thad Eure, shown right, who is chairman of the Elon College board of trustees.
Elon Grants Honorary Doctor Of Laws
To Governor At Founders Day Program
JVeu? College Budget
Set At $2,867,847
The Elon College board
trustees, at their an-
meeting on
tioncampusonMarch
“th, approved an operat-
jng budget for the col-
®ge of $2,867,847 for the
coming fiscal year that
begins June 1st.
Along with the increas-
operating budget, the
ustees then raised the
on tuition for the com-
"gyear to $1,050. begin-
,L the opening of
969-70 term on sV
1st. This will in-
wde tuition of $550 for
yall semester, $50 for
fo?
tne spring semester,
trustees authoriz-
mii naming of a com-
tee of students, facul-
administration and
‘“stees to study the pos-
pty, of modifying the
regulations
compulsory
attendance, with
ftp K planned before
fall tern""*"®
Another committee was
authorized to draft a pro
posed set of by-laws for
the faculty, and other ac
tion included votes to in
crease the emphasis on
curricular offerings in
the field of church music
and to strengthen the aca
demic program in the
field of religious educa
tion.
The trustees also
heard routine reports
from Dr. J. E. Danieley,
Elon’s president, and
from the board’s stand
ing committees. The
business committee re
port was submitted by
Tom Earp, of South Bos
ton, Va.; that of the de
velopment committee by
J. L. Crumpton, of Dur
ham; and that for the edu
cation committee by Dr.
J. E. Rawls.of Suffolk, Va.
Governor Robert W.
Scott became Dr. Robert
W. Scott when Elon Col
lege conferred upon him
the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws as a spe
cial feature of the col
lege’s annual Founders
Day convocation, which
was held on Wednesday,
March 5th.
The degree was con
ferred upon Governor
Scott by Dr. J. E. Dan
ieley, Elon’s president,
after Dean Fletcher
Moore had presented the
governor as a candidate
for the degree.
The citation, which was
read by Dean Moore,
recognized Scott for his
many accomplishments in
the fields of agriculture
and in the civic and po
litical life of the state
and at the same time paid
tribute to him for carry
ing on a distinguished
family name and for fol
lowing the footsteps of his
illustrious father, the late
Governor W. Kerr Scott.
The citation follows:
“Born and educated in
North Carolina, Robert
Walter Scott was elected
to the office of lieuten-
ant-governor at the age of
thirty-five. Fo'ir years
later in 1968 he was elect
ed governor, just twenty
years after his father’s
election to the same high
post.
“Active in agricultural
affairs, he has served
as president of the North
Carolina Society of Farm
Manager and Appraisers,
the United States Poultry
and Egg Producers Asso
ciation and as master of
the North Carolina
Grange.
“Bearing a name dis
tinguished in North Caro
lina history, he has al
ready enlarged his fam
ily’s record of significant
service to the state. His
resourcefulness, vision
and sense of dedication to
the welfare of her people
have won for him a high
place of leadership and
respect in his native
state.”
The degree from Elon
College is the first such
academic award for the
governor, and many per
sons remarked that it was
highly fitting that the hon
or should have come from
an institution in his home
county of Alamance.
Visits Elon
As Founders
Daj Guest
In addressing the an
nual Founders Day convo
cation in Elon’s Alumni
Memorial Gymnasium on
Wednesday, March 5th,
North Carolina's Gover
nor Robert W. Scott chal
lenged his college stu
dent listeners to help in
building a better world
rather than to contribute
to the destructive activi
ties so prevalent in re
cent months on American
college campuses.
In opening his remarks
before the Founders Day
audience. Governor Scott
expressed pride in Elon
College as an Alamance
County institution and
pointed out that Elon
seeks to do more for its
students than to just train
them for jobs. He declar
ed that Elon’s purpose
is to equip its students
to face an increasingly
complex world without
fear.
In speaking of the col
lege campus as a place
where young and old meet,
Scott declared that col
lege is the place where
youth receives educa
tion as a gift from gene
rations past and express
ed the hope that students
may learn of the debt
which they owe to the
past.
He admitted, however,
that there are those who
fhink that they owe noth
ing to the past or to
their own parents and
forebears, saying that the
oft-used term of “gene
ration gap” and the cur
rent campus demonstra
tions indicate lack of un
derstanding between par
ents and children.
The governor acknow
ledged that he considers
some forms of student
unrest to be healthy re
flections of growing and
inquiring minds, but he
branded acts of vanda
lism, destruction and dis
ruption as something en
tirely different, and he
reiterated the stand which
he took recently when he
declared that such acts
will not be tolerated in
North Carolina.
After saying that mean
student activists claim
that they “are trying to
help the people,” he de
clared that their actions
belie these words, and he
called the campus demon
stration acts of extreme
selfishness.
It was then that he chal
lenged the students to
“Help Us Build,” and ur
ged them to march into
homes where there is
need for greater know
ledge, better food and to
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